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PAMELA SLIM is an author, speaker, and mentor in the new world of work. She spent the first ten years of her solo practice as a consultant to large corporations such as Hewlett-Packard, Charles Schwab, and Cisco Systems, where she worked with thousands of employees, managers, and executives. In 2005 she started the Escape from Cubicle Nation blog, which is now one of the top career and business sites on the Web. She has coached thousands of budding entrepreneurs in businesses ranging from martial art studios to software start-ups. Her first book, Escape from Cubicle Nation, won best small-business book of 2009 from 800-CEO-Read. Pam lives with her husband and two kids in Mesa, Arizona, where she fends off suburban attackers at the grocery store with her black belt in mixed martial arts.